Posted by: Jonathan Bartlett
on June 18, 2004 01:12 PM
Actually, you can start a publishing company for under $500 if you want, now that print-on-demand is viable in the marketplace.
In fact, I started with pretty much $40 sent to CafePress. I earned my startup money with early editions of my Programming from the Ground Up book, which I used to buy ISBNs, pay my cover designer, and do marketing for this book and other books on my "up and coming" list.
So yeah, I couldn't have started without the low barrier to entry. But even past that, the DocBook tools make putting together a quality book very simple - much more so than the other tools.
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Re:Cost discussion incomplete
Posted by: Jonathan Bartlett on June 18, 2004 01:12 PMIn fact, I started with pretty much $40 sent to CafePress. I earned my startup money with early editions of my Programming from the Ground Up book, which I used to buy ISBNs, pay my cover designer, and do marketing for this book and other books on my "up and coming" list.
So yeah, I couldn't have started without the low barrier to entry. But even past that, the DocBook tools make putting together a quality book very simple - much more so than the other tools.
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